one week down!

Tomorrow is going to be one week since Shaun deployed and so far so good.  I have been working a lot and in my free time hanging out with some of the other wives.  It’s nice having them around since they know exactly what I am going through.  This is going to be the longest time Shaun and I have been apart since we started living together.  When I tell people Shaun is a marine and of course with that he is gone a lot they always ask how do you do it? and at work this week I was talking to a kid and he said “you military wives you’re a different kind of breed” and I can’t help but agree with him 100% we are a different breed but also I would say are husbands are a different kind of breed as well.  They have to be creative when it comes to anniversaries and birthdays because most of the time they aren’t home for those, they may not be home but they still need to fill our love bucket!  I think Shaun is really good about keeping my love bucket full for example the day he left he didn’t have to be to work until the evening time and I of course was at work the entire day.  When I came home from work my hands were full I was on the phone and pretty emotional considering my husband was going to be leaving in like a few hours.   He wouldn’t let me walk into the family room area and he was blocking me and finally I looked at him and was like WHAT!? And he goes come here I go in the kitchen and there are two big pictures in frames one was of me and him and the other of me and my friends and in between them he got me lilies (my favorite) and a card that had my name on it and under my name said do not open until September 18 (our anniversary).  Shaun planned three months in advanced so I could for sure have a card on our anniversary. I told him why do you have to be so good to me it makes me miss you more when you’re gone lol.  I have a wonderful husband. Enough about Shaun I’m crying my eyes out now missing him so much, so I’ll tell you a funny story about Bentley.  He has been pretty picky about his food lately and not eating it right away almost as if I had been feeding him too much (8cups a day). so I decided to cut down to 6 cups a day.  Last night while eating pizza Bentley starts crying and begging me for food of my plate and I never ever ever feed him food off my plate so I don’t know where the begging was coming from. Tonight I realized he was throwing up in the back yard and I went out there and it was two huge handfuls of grass (guess I’m starving him now). Doesn’t matter what I do I guess bent will never be happy lol. Can you say spoiled!!!

Another deployment

So I know it has been a while since I last blogged but I have been trying to spend as much of the last two months with the husband because of course he deployed again.  This deployment will be my fourth since we have been together.  Although I know what to expect it is still really hard.  I am so lucky though because I had a wonderful friend help keep my mind off him being gone today this being the beginning of the deployment it’s always the hardest (her husband is also deployed).  I think Bentley knows Shaun is gone because he has been acting very strange it is kind of sad :(  during this deployment I plan on working as much as I can and praying that nothing goes wrong lol.  In October last year I went to a LINKS meeting and basically it is an 8 hour meeting where you learn what to expect while being a marine wife. At this meeting they told us that during deployments Murphy’s law happens all the time, so far I can say that this is true so I am praying really hard that these 6 or so months go by smoothly.  Hopefully I will be able to blog more that my husband is gone (something else to keep my mind off the deployment).

Something else that is going on besides deployment is I have decided to change what I want to be when I grow up.  I have decided to go into nursing.  Changing this hasn’t really set me back much but I am not exactly moving forward either I have some courses I need to take before I can try and get into the nursing program but I am so excited and I actually feel like this is what I am supposed to do. Other than that I guess that’s about it! Hope all is well!